Out With The Old In With The New

This is so cool, right now I'm typing this on my brand new phone. I downloaded the app for this so that if I'm ever out and about and the idea for a blog pops into my head I don't have to wait till I get home to type it out. I'm hoping this will only encourage me to to write more. Also seeing as I start university soon I might even be able to blog as I'm working on something such as a project or even just an idea of a personal project, the possibilities are endless.

St Andrews Church

I took this photo today on my phone using an application called instagram. I'm guessing most of you would have heard of this, it's absolutely huge in the UK pretty sure anyone and everyone uses it lol.
Anyways I love the effects you can get in the editing section and as I visited the cemetery I looked up at the church and knew I wanted to take a photograph straight away. I visit this church quite a lot and last time I went I didn't have my camera with me so was unable to do anything.

Next entry will have some photo's on there that I took last week whilst I was on my holiday in Yorkshire. I took some that I'm hoping you guys will like.
Until then. Byeee

Another One of My Favourites

I'm continuing on from last months post by talking about another photographer I've discovered in the last couple of years. She goes by the name of Fractured Porcelain Photography and has recently had a show in New York being featured along side Mat Marrash and Matt Lambros, 2 photographers whose work I am yet to check out for myself (I shall keep you informed and do a post when I do.)

Riverside Psychiatric Center

As you know I love abandoned buildings and photographs of nature taking back the space which is so rightfully theirs. Recently Melissa was part of a New York exhibition called Urban decay, and may I add that the title was perfect.
She went to the Riverside Psychiatric Center which is in New York. She photographed many things around the building but this one is my favourite.
Alot of her Urban Decay photo's, including this one, remind me somewhat of photographs I've seen of Chernobyl and Pripyat. Behind each and every picture there is a story and a mourningful yet beautiful one at that.
Eventhough it's not slap bang in the middle of the photograph the wheelchair in the pool automatically draws your eyes straight to it, despite there being a lot going on around it. It's almost like when you seen a bunch of grey pigeons and your eyes go straight to the white one in the middle. For me I can also feel the suffering seeping out of the chair and in a way I for myself can sympathize with that along with many other people.


I would love to be able to visit this place one day along with other abandoned Psychiatric Wards when I get around to travelling across the U.S. In fact if I had my way, and the money, I would move there, but a girl can dream right? I am in complete awe at the pure talent that Melissa has at capturing a moment or a feeling just in one shot it's just simply remarkable.
You should really check out her facebook and flickr pages.

It sucks that I only discovered this girl last year after my College's final exhibition had finished, otherwise I know for a fact her work would have inspired my final piece massively and maybe do a piece of work I was completely happy with rather then having to settle for something else.

I hope you enjoyed this entry,
Over and Out

Change Of Plan

If you guys read my last post you'll know that I went to Canterbury to visit the local university with my sister. Sadly I didn't get the chance to take any photographs. However, I'm going back this summer so I will make sure I get some then. That means that this post won't be about my own work but the work of one of my favourite photographers.

This photographer is Francesca Woodman, an American artist who lived in New York.

Francesca Woodman

I've loved Francesca Woodman's work ever since I layed eyes on it during a photographic project whilst I was at college. Most people see her work and think it's depressing or don't really understand any of it. Personally I think her work is inspiring and in a way I feel like I relate to some of it. For example the photograph I've chosen to show you was part of a series about space. The series involved works of woodman hiding behind things such as fireplaces and mirror, almost like she was trying to blend in. Her work gives off the sense that she was trying to portray how she felt either psychologically or emotionally without using words to express herself.
There are apparently around 800 photographs that she produced all or a majority of which were whilst she was a student. However only about a quarter of these have been made public.
The one thing about Woodman's work I love is the fact she didn't really owe it to anyone, she did it for herself and nobody else. I think that's why her work was never published world wide whilst she was alive. Sadly Francesca Woodman killed herself in 1981 at just 22. It's a scary thought that she was just a year older then I am now when she died. But in a way I don't think she died in vein, simply because her work was never really seen whilst she lived. Of course I'm not the one to say she wouldn't have made it living, but I suppose it's one of those things that we will never know.
I would love to one day be able to actually see her works in person rather then through text books and the internet. The University I'm going to be attending from September hold an annual trip to New York and eventhough I've been there before I would love to go back, so I have my fingers crossed I'll be able to afford to go this year. If I do get to go I might be lucky enough to finally see some of Woodman's work. If not then I can always get a train to somewhere in the UK that's showing some.

I must warn anyone under that gets uncomfortable about nudity might not want to research Woodman. Not all her work has nudity but I just thought I should warn you before you choose to take a look. I hope you fall in love with her work as much as I have.

Alive & V Dubbin'

On Sunday I went to a festival at a local farm for Volts Wagen's it mostly consisted of camper van's and beetles with the occasional golf. There were lots of people there that were mostly selling camper van merchandise such as cushions and car stickers. After spending most of the day walking around and listening to music we all decided to go onto the nature trail that is part of the farm except you have to pay. As part of the nature trail there is a butterfly house (for those of you that don't know what that is, it's a big greenhouse type building that is filled with plants and butterflies)

The butterfly house was so beautiful but ridiculously humid. There were so many butterflies fluttering around almost aimlessly it was absolutely amazing. I've been to a butterfly house before but I was so thankful that I had the chance to take my camera this time. A couple of friends saw these 2 butterflies flying around together and I instantly went after them. I had seen them land on a leaf but when I took the picture the settings were wrong which meant the photograph came out took dark. I followed them round for a few minutes and finally got this shot. I love the bright colours on the flower and the leaves. The brightness of the flower compared to the darkness of the two butterflies really makes them both stand out. Even though the flower is really bright I feel like the butterflies stand out a lot more due the huge contrast in colour.

Not sure when my next entry shall be but I shall try my hardest to do it with in the ext couple of weeks. I'm going to canterbury tomorrow so I've got my fingers crossed i'll get the chance to take some photographs. If not I'm sure I'll find something else to talk to you guys about.

Goodnight everyone

Rather Rainy Afternoon

Hey Guys
This is a rather delayed post which means I'll be writing two entries this week rather then one aren't you lot lucky.
I've got a few busy days ahead. Firstly I'm going to Canterbury on Saturday whilst my little sister looks at the university and I'm hoping to get some photo's, fingers crossed the weather holds out. And then I'm off to my Nan's old house on Sunday to go through her things. I'm moving out of my parents house in September which means I need pots and pans for the accommodation I'm moving to. If I manage to get some decent photographs on Saturday then I'll be writing three posts this month in total.

This entry though is about some photographs I took at a local Agricultural show. For those of you that don't know what that is I'll explain it for you. It's basically I big fair type thing where people sell expensive clothing, show off flowers and farmers get to compare the size of the tractors. It's usually a lot of fun and I thought this year would be the perfect chance to take my camera and get some photo's, so that you can all see what other parts of my country were like and also I thought I'd get some amazing shots. Sadly However the British weather as typical and predictably unpredictable it is did not want to play along. This resulted in me not getting as many photo's as I would have liked. However I'm hoping I'll have the time and money to be able to go next year, seeing as it's an annual event.

From this years Suffolk Show I only managed to get one or two decent photographs and I like to think this is one of them. As you can see the weather was absolutely terrible and we all got drenched down to the bone. I took this one when me and my sister were stood under a shelter this all of our wet belongings. I'd noticed that this child that had come with us didn't seem to be phased at all by the rain and was still enjoying the live stock show that was taking place in the ring in front of her. She just stood there with the umbrella I had given her just watching almost in awe of what was going on. I knew there and then that I had to get that shot. I love the way her black coat stands out against the green grass and the white tent. It's almost as if she's a silhouette. I also love that if you look closely on the umbrella you can see the tiny little rain drops, I love tiny little details like that. I'm not really sure why though.

My next post will be about a festival I went to on yesterday. Though as of yet I'm not sure which photo's I'll include as there's a lot of different ones.
And talking of the festival I want to do a little promo for a local singer that we saw and spoke to and for a change its not Tom Law (sneaky little promo there).

This guy is Adam Moss. I first saw him live when he supported Matt Cardle for a Charity gig that is very close to my heart. He played a set yesterday which were songs from his soon to be released album called Get A Grip Kid. It's available only on pre-order at the moment you can get it from http://www.adammoss.bigcartel.com/.
He also has a facebook page- http://www.facebook.com/AdamMossMusic and he has twitter-https://twitter.com/#!/AdamMossMusic so now you have no excuse not to check him out. Trust me you should his music is really really good.




Until next time my little buddies. Byeeee

The Norfolk Broads- Part II

This is one of the photo's I took whilst along the river. The boat captain told us an interesting story about why this Oven/Arguer (i'm not really sure if that's spelled right or not) was on its own at the side of the river surrounded by rubble.
Apparently there used to be a house there that ended up needing to be knocked down for some reason that I can't remember. Of all the items that were in the house the builders decided to leave the oven there. Nobody really knows the exact reason, but seeing it just stood there kind of inspired me to take photo's of any other 'random' objects by the river.
If you want to see the rest of the photographs I took on holiday head over to my Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/Sarah.Thompson.Photographie Don't forget to click like and share.

I took this one evening after I had been to dinner. I loved the way the sun was setting behind the trees and also the colour of the sky and the clouds. It was so beautiful. I took this because of the way the silhouette of the trees really made the sky stand out. To me I think this is my version of negative space whilst using a photographic media. What do you think? I did take a couple more but I don't think any worked as well as this one did.

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And keep a look out for my next post.

The Norfolk Broads-Photographs

    So I know I was meant to write an entry once I got home from my holiday, but I've just been so unmotivated to do anything. In fact when I have been motivated I've then been asked to do something and completely forgotten because I have the memory of a gold fish sometimes.


Whilst on my holiday I did the usual things of staying in looking over the river and reading books and when I wasn't at the house I'd do things with my family or go out to have a look around the local village and take photographs. I took the above photograph on my last day of my holiday when me, my mum, dad, brother and his fiance and my little sister and her friend all went on a boat trip called the Mississippi River Boat trip. I mentioned the boat my previous as I had seen it go down the river one evening. The photograph on your right is of the boat I had been telling you about.


 We went down the river and thankfully I decided to take my camera, as I did ponder it as it was raining when we left, so I got to take lot's of photographs most of them were of wildlife, such as birds that were swimming along the river or standing along the rivers edge though there were was the odd that I saw things that looked out of place. One photo that I took was of an oven that had been left at the side of the river. I'll explain and show you that in the next post. There will be an extra post linked to this as I have a couple of photos I want to talk about. 
I also took a photo of some boats that I had seen pulled in and tied up at the side of the river between 2 houses. I loved how the sun was reflecting off the paint and also just simply the different shades of blue that they were all painted in. It caught my eye, on a day that I had gone out to look around the village, because I found it cute the way they all looked like they were all waiting to be taken onto the main water, yet at the same time they looked like they had just been tied up and forgotten about which kind of made me sad.


I'm going to go now as I'm very tired and shall be getting into bed as soon as Jerry Springer has finished. If you want to check out my other photographs then head over to my facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/Sarah.Thompson.Photographie
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Look out for part 2 of this blog.